A controversial portrait of President George W Bush, formed using monkey heads, has been projected on a giant billboard in Manhattan.

Chris Savido’s acrylic painting, Bush Monkeys, prompted gallery managers to close down a 60-piece show at New York’s Chelsea Market last week.

Anonymous donors subsequently paid for the picture to be posted over the entrance to Holland Tunnel for a month.

Some 400,000 drivers are expected to see the billboard each day.

The painting is now being sold on internet auction site eBay to raise money for a charity which donates money to parents of US soldiers who want to supply their children with body armour in Iraq.

The current eBay bid is now $12,000.

And why was the gallery, in the supposed arty section of NYC, so gutless as to close the show?

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The radio radiation like the kind emitted by cellular phones can damage DNA, at least under laboratory conditions, a group of European researchers announced Monday.

Over a 24 hour period, cells exposed to such radiation in patterns of five minutes on, ten minutes off had about double the frequency of DNA damage of a control group.

That would be a LOT of cell phone use, 8 hours a day to be exact. Even the most hardcore cell users I know only use their cell about 90 minutes a day. But still… 

And “there was remaining damage for future generation of cells,” project leader Franz Adlkofer was quoted by the Reuters news service as saying. That means broken DNA strands could be passed down the line into mutated cells which could become cancerous.

The research also found that older cells were more likely to show a higher increase in DNA breaks.

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From Wal-Mart, no less…

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The so-called intersex abnormality may be caused by pollutants from sewage plants, feedlots and factories that can interfere with animals’ hormone systems.

The Religious Right will probably blame this on crumbling moral values instead.

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